Epirus

//ɪˈpaɪəɹəs// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania.
  2. 2
    A geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece.

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"Phaeacia's heights with the horizon blend; / we skim Epirus, and Chaonia's bay / enter, and to Buthrotum's town ascend."

Etymology

From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).

Related phrases

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